Faculty

Heather Macpherson Parrott

Description

Heather Parrott received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Georgia, where she conducted research and taught courses in the area of race, class and gender inequality. She has worked on a variety of policy-oriented quantitative and qualitative research projects, from assessing the impact of Latino immigration on Georgia schools to uncovering effective family-friendly policies for academics. In her current research, she examines the ways in which childcare influences the social mobility of mothers, with a particular interest in low-income mothers. Heather teaches a broad range of sociology courses at C.W. Post, including classes in social statistics, research methods, gender and immigration.

Specialties

Race, Class and Gender Inequality

Publications

Co-author, “Racial Mismatch and Organizational Structure: The Case of Teacher Satisfaction and Retention,” under review by Sociology of Education

Co-author, “The Myth of Millions: The Social Construction of the Illegal Immigration Problem in Georgia,” published in “The Brown Belt: Race and Immigration in the New South”

Co-author, “The Future of Education for New Latinos in the Southeast,” published in the Journal of Latinos and Education (2005)